#theres more but im bad at organizing my thoughts 💀

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Some changeling & troll!Jim headcannons

Morgana had been considering making changelings for years, it wasn't a sudden idea; it was something she'd been planning for a long time

She even discussed it with Merlin at one point (under the guise of wanting to better 'unite' humans and trolls), and he proposed the idea of humans turning into trolls instead of vice-versa.

This is where the concept for the half-troll potion came from. What Jim became was essentially a modified version of a failed recipe for changelings that Merlin kept around in case it ever became useful.

Jim wasn't the first half-troll, he was just the first successful one. There was a chance it could've gone horribly wrong (as it has in past attempts) but Merlin took the risk anyway since he saw it working in his vision.

The reason Morgana's version always ended with better results was due to dark magic and Merlin's outright refusal to go there.

Because they were on a time crunch, Merlin substituted some of the rarer ingredients common in transfiguration potions with material from a preexisting changeling.

All they know about the bone used in the potion was that it came from a changeling. They never learned who, or what kind of troll they were, And subsequently have no clue as to what species of troll Jim was partially turned into. And Merlin didn't ever feel like helping them figure it out even though he probably could've with relative ease.

If they had more time for him to work on the potion, and if Merlin actually measured his ingredients instead of throwing them all in a blender, Jim probably would've come out less wonky (an even amount of fingers, among other things).

#theres more but im bad at organizing my thoughts 💀 #i feel like young douxie probably walked in on merlin & morgana either scheming or arguing #a few times and they just shouted at him to leave #and he was probably so fucking confused #wait is it scheming? #actually yeah probably #like obviously merlin was doing all this with much more 'benevolent' intentions and morgana was just lying to his face #but id still call it scheming since merlins definitely willing to do morally questionable things #with his whole 'ends justify the means' and 'looking at the bigger picture' mentality #troll jim #trollhunters #toa headcanon #toa changelings #tales of arcadia #jim lake jr #toa merlin #toa morgana #Moth.txt